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and that would've changed so much. i think i would change so much. >> just paid maternity leave. >> it's going to have to comb through private companies because the government is going to do it. they can't pay for entitlements of hostile fire. we have to work on companies. there's enough pressure if young women coalesce in a new movement towards that, i think i can help. google in new york just expanded to 12 weeks. 12 weeks maternity leave because they had too many women leaving. that's what happens. they improved their retention rate and it's paying off. >> are names in the air already. the attack she's been attracting because when we talk about how to solve these problems, they're actually are women ceos that have stepped forward and most notably sandberg and she's kind of been an astonishing amount of venture out. i've written about on one level we really want more women ceos. those who say that kind of hate the women ceos who do have. we really can't stand a million things about them. it's worth thinking a little
and that would've changed so much. i think i would change so much. >> just paid maternity leave. >> it's going to have to comb through private companies because the government is going to do it. they can't pay for entitlements of hostile fire. we have to work on companies. there's enough pressure if young women coalesce in a new movement towards that, i think i can help. google in new york just expanded to 12 weeks. 12 weeks maternity leave because they had too many women leaving....
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change policy. i just hope it makes the understanding and think about each other a little bit differently. >> our you doing? thank you very much for coming as begin tonight. speaking on two topics that are particularly of interest to me, education and the city of new orleans, which i love. one test to a quick question to summarize this ." maybe you can tell me how the three schools that you spend some time and kind of relate to this and if you see this going forward as an ideal. the notion that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories. critics of other people's ideas to analyze the evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on this complex world. an idea with revolutionary indications. >> that's a great quote. i mean, i think that really that critical thinking and original thought and sort of the ability to study and learn about what interests you and has sort of a self directed education and some foundational level is really important. the critical thinking that i thin
change policy. i just hope it makes the understanding and think about each other a little bit differently. >> our you doing? thank you very much for coming as begin tonight. speaking on two topics that are particularly of interest to me, education and the city of new orleans, which i love. one test to a quick question to summarize this ." maybe you can tell me how the three schools that you spend some time and kind of relate to this and if you see this going forward as an ideal. the...
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i guess going back to that close, i don't know that it will change policy or that it should change policy but i hope it makes us all understand and think about each other a little differently. >> thank you very much for coming out and speaking tonight on two topics of interest to me, education and the city of new orleans which i love. i want to ask a quick question to summarize this quote. maybe you can tell me how three schools use spent some time in kind of relate to this and you see this going forward as an idea. the notion that all children could or should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, analyzers of evidence and makers of there and personal marks on this complex world is an ideal with revolutionary implications. >> that is a great quote. i think really that critical thinking and original thought and the ability to study and learn what interests you and has a self directed education with some foundational level are really important and critical thinking, the best thing my own indication -- education gave me. it is increasingly hard to live up to th
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. >> host: has personal technology changed how you teach? >> guest: it's changed for the better and a little bit for the worst. we now have to compete with all these other sorts of calls on students' attention. they come to class and they have their salles phone with them there are lots of others things they can do what they are not excited what's going on in class and we need to compete with that but at the same time we can use technologies to bring the outside world into the classroom. we have a giant video monitors now that we can make some of these things come alive and give them an opportunity to test what we are talking about in the classroom on these theoretical issues with what is really happening out there in the real world. >> host: is it important to give students letter grades? >> guest: for them or others? i don't know that there really is that important. i don't find it to be as useful as others might that students want them and they want them because that is what they are used to. they've been competing for that and that's wha
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all we did was change. now we have to change what men want. we have to change what society is willing to do for family. universal daycare. we have to make this world completely different for ourselves. then we will have it. >> such an important point. one of the things that makes me so sad is that we were really close. 1971. walter mondale. bipartisan. comprehensive child care where there were going to have universal preschool in day care like they do and scandinavian countries. imagine. it was nixon who did that. we don't want to put the best moral authority of the federal government and non-traditional family structure. unconventional. the things katie writes about. and that would have changed so much. it still would. i think that that would change so much. just paid maternity leave. that would be an enormous. and it's going to have to come through hassling private companies because the government isn't going to be able to do it. government can't pay for the entitlements and already has out there. we can't wait from march on washington. we h
all we did was change. now we have to change what men want. we have to change what society is willing to do for family. universal daycare. we have to make this world completely different for ourselves. then we will have it. >> such an important point. one of the things that makes me so sad is that we were really close. 1971. walter mondale. bipartisan. comprehensive child care where there were going to have universal preschool in day care like they do and scandinavian countries. imagine....
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in our society that means we have got to control climate change and we have to educate young people. that should be the strategy. so the long-term strategy of doubling of the green economy and creating opportunities and education is also the best strategy for creating jobs in a booming economy to full employment. so back to full employment, there's a short-term way to get there and it's pretty straightforward in technical terms. there is a long-term plan for sustaining a full employment economy. what we really need to do is get the politics localized and that means not just fighting against the republicans but we have to get the democrats and we -- what we really need to do is build up at the ground level at the grassroots and whoever the politicians are to start to it in bed again in our society full employment as the fundamental future of how we function. so i will stop there and we can have a discussion. [applause] so, yeah. >> i know 30 or 40 years it was at 5% and when clinton came in it was that or%. what would you consider to be full employment? >> very good question. the idea
in our society that means we have got to control climate change and we have to educate young people. that should be the strategy. so the long-term strategy of doubling of the green economy and creating opportunities and education is also the best strategy for creating jobs in a booming economy to full employment. so back to full employment, there's a short-term way to get there and it's pretty straightforward in technical terms. there is a long-term plan for sustaining a full employment...
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demography does not have to be destiny if you change course. and the path that we could take is to allow for a strategic reform of our immigration laws so that we can bring young, aspirational people that will rebuild the demographic pyramid to make our entitlement system secure and jump-start our economy in a way that will create an uplifting of our hopes and dreams but also directly impact, immediately impact economic growth. >> u.s. economic growth and immigration policy. former florida governor jeb bush on immigration wars tonight at 8:15 eastern, part of booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> here's a look at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. during the second weekend of march, booktv will be live from the tucson festival of books in arizona. among several authors feature are timothy egan and kristin iverson. be sure to check our web site for updates on the schedule. the virginia festival of the book begins wednesday, march 20th and runs through sunday, the 24th. this annual charlottesville, virginia,
demography does not have to be destiny if you change course. and the path that we could take is to allow for a strategic reform of our immigration laws so that we can bring young, aspirational people that will rebuild the demographic pyramid to make our entitlement system secure and jump-start our economy in a way that will create an uplifting of our hopes and dreams but also directly impact, immediately impact economic growth. >> u.s. economic growth and immigration policy. former...
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and to see how, what was once a co-op would've relationship between citizens and police really changed once they had to circuiting people for driving or seeking arrest while drinking liquor. alcohol was banned in virginia two years before national legislation was passed. there were people who believed that they could just go out on the potomac and consume liquor, then that was legal because they were not technically in virginia. earlier the police department needed a lot of vehicles. it was a pretty small area. they were responsible for patrolling and started seeing the size of alexandria double and then double again in a matter of 20 years, really changed the department. the staffing, more vehicles, and ultimately they needed a new police station. one of the stories i find really interesting is how officers began enforcing speed limits. for the like the first 40 years of please departments history you didn't have cars. they were not motorized vehicles. so once cars started coming to alexandria, the question was how do you stop somebody for speeding? how do know there? >> today we have
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we had to change computers at the last minute and in the process, what we did is we took the connection to the video off. so we will play the video separately because i think it is a good video. >> what i was saying is there is a reason why the start-ups tend to come up with a lot of great innovation these days in the large corporations but there's a lot of thinking on the corporation's about how we might get that sort of start up spirit in house. [inaudible] [laughter] >> ibm the contract computer scientist by trade and founder of something called the tinkering school which aims to help kids learn how to build the films they think of so we build a lot of things and i to put power tools into the hands of second graders so if you're thinking about sending our kids to schools they can come back bruise, scraped and bloody. the book is called 50 dangerous things. number one, play with fire. learning to control one of the most elemental forces in nature is the pivotal moment in any personal history. whether we remember it or not, it is the first time that we get control over one of these mys
we had to change computers at the last minute and in the process, what we did is we took the connection to the video off. so we will play the video separately because i think it is a good video. >> what i was saying is there is a reason why the start-ups tend to come up with a lot of great innovation these days in the large corporations but there's a lot of thinking on the corporation's about how we might get that sort of start up spirit in house. [inaudible] [laughter] >> ibm the...
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you don't change the path you're on without public leadership changing directions. too many people in public life try to follow what the polls say and try to mirror back what people are thinking at any given time. that is not leadership and that certainly won't change the direction that the country is taking and his son. leadership hard to define but americans pretty much get it when they see it. when someone thinks first of the greater good which -- to a great leader everything else else comes second like i said politics the polls personal pride financial success and even friends sometimes. leaders are sometimes forced in crisis and sometimes they do their best work when no one is noticing but we always see the results. it takes strong leadership to produce results. we have seen that time and time again in recent history and it is certainly a lesson to remember as we look to the dog dog -- -- challenge we face. effective leadership comes in many forms and from both political parties. president kennedy led us through vision and inspiration when he challenged america
you don't change the path you're on without public leadership changing directions. too many people in public life try to follow what the polls say and try to mirror back what people are thinking at any given time. that is not leadership and that certainly won't change the direction that the country is taking and his son. leadership hard to define but americans pretty much get it when they see it. when someone thinks first of the greater good which -- to a great leader everything else else comes...
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we had to change computers at the last minute. in the process we did was we took the connections to the videos off. we will play the video separately. it does give video. >> there is a reason why start-ups tend to come up with a lot of great innovations these days, not large corporations, but there's a lot of thinking, obviously to operations, how we might get some of the star of spirit in house. book tv book tv -- ♪ >> take all this advice with a grain of salt. i am a contract computer scientist by trade, but i am the founder of something called the tendering school. a summer program which aims to help kids learn how to build the things that they think of. we build a lot of things. i do put power tools into the hands of second graders. so if you are thinking about sending your kid to tinkering school, they do come back bruise, script, and bloody. the book is called 50 dangerous things. this is five dangerous things. the number one, play with fire. learning to control one of the most elemental forces in nature is a pivotal momen
we had to change computers at the last minute. in the process we did was we took the connections to the videos off. we will play the video separately. it does give video. >> there is a reason why start-ups tend to come up with a lot of great innovations these days, not large corporations, but there's a lot of thinking, obviously to operations, how we might get some of the star of spirit in house. book tv book tv -- ♪ >> take all this advice with a grain of salt. i am a contract...
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he knew that they did not have a museum. >> added a change your relationship? >> how did readiness to is my relationship? it didn't directly in the sense that i still dial calls the same way and all that. it actually use a rotary phone a my brother's house a few weeks ago. oh, my god. that's low. i don't know how we ever dealt with that. the thing that it did do was it just made me realize how much work went into getting as the phone system that we have. we have then that we have today. mike was saying earlier. an incredible amount of work. it's also interesting that really allows us into all what will take recordings of telephone calls in the tell -- 1960's. beatty's klaxon clocks or whenever. the circuits are noisy. costs have more character than. in contrast we have, i'm sorry, what? and sorry, what? the call dropped. i have horizon. so you know, i appreciate against both the modern conveniences and also the old system the qualities of the old network. >> put together, if they had broken up at&t before it put together the system? >> and sorry, say it again?
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change. the one thing there is nothing in this book -- the one thing i think might get kind of underestimated in this book is the degree to which the fiscal analysis is a cultural traits with a whole group of voters. if you look at the criticism that richard lugar made -- richard murdock murdoch's defense of himself it's the same thing. he said he doesn't want to legislate. he said i don't want to legislate. he said we will make the compromises necessary to get things done. murdoch said that is exactly what i want to do. if you let me i will for sand and the gear of the government and prevent things from getting done. i don't agree with a consensus what is done in washington for so long. i am pursuing a different path. that is true with the rise of the tea party movement in 2010. voters that voted for the tea party candidates were not tracked into the kind of tactics that supporters of the tea party movement were going to follow once they got to washington. they said that they were willing to
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didn't change the world. there's of other really good mentor figure out now on the web or freed a table. but the fact of the matter is that richard nixon put enormous pressure both legal and political on the national archives, and that track of this process but and i will say one thing. if you care about access to government information, then support -- i don't work for them anymore. support the national archives. it has very little public support. or very little political support. so that's really important, because richard nixon is not the only president to put pressure on the national archives to make things difficult spent i totally agree but i wasn't talking about -- i'm talking about the campaign to make them look better in the public eye but as far as china, i do want to say we should really give nixon, yeah, people say kissinger, henry kissinger was an old european guy. nixon was from the west coast. he traveled to asia when he was, first took office. this was nixon, this was all nixon. >> my name is
didn't change the world. there's of other really good mentor figure out now on the web or freed a table. but the fact of the matter is that richard nixon put enormous pressure both legal and political on the national archives, and that track of this process but and i will say one thing. if you care about access to government information, then support -- i don't work for them anymore. support the national archives. it has very little public support. or very little political support. so that's...
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his plays include angels in america, home body kabul and caroline or change. his screenplays include angels in america for mike nichols in munich for steven spielberg and, of course, today's book is the screenplay for the "lincoln" movie. and there's a forward by doris kearns goodwin. 164 pages, $15.95 for the paperback, and you can order while we're live or a little later on as well we'll have signed copy cans for you. as well we have harold holzer, and i think this is his third or fourth time on. senior vice president for external affairs at the metropolitan museum of art, co-chair of the u.s. lincoln bicentennial commission, may it rest in peace. has authored or co-authored 44 books on lincoln and the civil war and is a specialist in imagery and the go-to guy for the media on anything lincoln. he has a nice artifact collection, too, for that matter, and hopefully we'll get you on artifact whisperer. he's won the never vines freeman award here at the chicago round table, three achievement awards from the lincoln group of new york and also the james robertson
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the city, changing the land. he also gave us a record that allows us to restore it or to preserve it in some ways even if it's an active imagination in many cases or an act of creativity as it is for eric sanderson. and i'm going to read you one last section from the book because the other reason that i really love randel has to do with just because i grew up in new york city. what happens to us when we're in a place for a long time and the layers of time sort of come, come to sort of inhabit us. and we see things around us in a very different way. so i'm going to read you this last passage, and then i would love to take questions. the garden and the machine. randel's survey of the canal was part of the national movement to lay down the country's infrastructure. it was to be, as albert intended, part of the else in network of internal improvements. canals cut through land bringing with them settlement, commerce and industry. they were among the agents bringing the machine to the garden. today the delaware is a bl
the city, changing the land. he also gave us a record that allows us to restore it or to preserve it in some ways even if it's an active imagination in many cases or an act of creativity as it is for eric sanderson. and i'm going to read you one last section from the book because the other reason that i really love randel has to do with just because i grew up in new york city. what happens to us when we're in a place for a long time and the layers of time sort of come, come to sort of inhabit...
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[inaudible] >> how did this change my relationship with my modern sound? it didn't directly in the sense that they still blow caused the same way. i did use a rotary phone a few weeks ago and it's slow. i don't know how we ever dealt with that. the thing it did do was made me realize how much work went into getting the phone system we have, that we had then, that we have today. an incredible amount of work. it's also interesting that i listen now to a whole bunch of old tape recordings of telephone calls in the 1960s. you hit send on your phone and were used to call going through but then a second or so. back then and maybe 15, 20 or longer think any of your clicks and calling some circus are noisy. the calls had more character then. in contrast today -- what -- the call dropped. we have that. [inaudible] [laughter] >> i've had for anything. so i appreciate both the modern conveniences and also build on the qualities of the old network. >> put together a breakouts if they broke up at&t before they put together -- >> say it again. >> they put together this
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. >> host: professor gould, has technology changed how you teach? >> guest: yeah, it has, and it's changed it probably for the better, but a little bit for the worse. the way it's changed for the worse is we have to compete with all the other sorts of calls on students' attention. they come to class, the cell phones with them, the smart phones, a lot of other things they can do if they are not excited about what's going on in class, and we have to compete with that. at the same time, we can use technologies like skype to bring the outside world into the classroom. we have these jiecht video monitors now that we can really make some of these things come alive for students and give them the opportunity to test what we're talking about in the classroom under these theoretical issues, with what really is happening out there in the real world. >> host: is it important to give students a letter grade? >> guest: important for whom? them or for others? i don't know it's that important. i don't find it to be as useful as others might, but students m them, an
. >> host: professor gould, has technology changed how you teach? >> guest: yeah, it has, and it's changed it probably for the better, but a little bit for the worse. the way it's changed for the worse is we have to compete with all the other sorts of calls on students' attention. they come to class, the cell phones with them, the smart phones, a lot of other things they can do if they are not excited about what's going on in class, and we have to compete with that. at the same...
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the way things were before the board, no territory changed hands, very little change. psychologically and politically, it was something of a watershed. while this proved a memorable war i want to make the case was an important war in shaping the american character. we stood up for ourselves. was david and goliath, and although we did not knock it to the ground world's expectations and our own self-confidence as a nation was altered as a result of the war. it might be useful to explain to mr. and mrs. madison in the title, it is a function of chronology. madison was president when the war began, his declaration began it so he got the blame and eventually whatever credit there was. in new england, no one really wanted to go to war. it would interfere with trade and politicians as the region was known were mostly merchants so the new england pamphleteer quickly dubbed the conflict mr. madison's war simply discussed. although no warrior, madison was small, sickly and intellectual by nature, his voice sounded fragile. he was always dressed in black but the name of a war, hi
the way things were before the board, no territory changed hands, very little change. psychologically and politically, it was something of a watershed. while this proved a memorable war i want to make the case was an important war in shaping the american character. we stood up for ourselves. was david and goliath, and although we did not knock it to the ground world's expectations and our own self-confidence as a nation was altered as a result of the war. it might be useful to explain to mr....
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i think the whole notion of power is changing. i'm not actually a big fan of the work declined because i don't think it reflects necessarily the reality. i am not a policymaker but from what i am finding is a journalist and as someone who has lived if you will on the receiving end of decisions made in washington, i'm not sure that the work declined is the right one but it is the one used in the debate. what i have found was that there was no one else who could take on the role that the moment that the u.s. has. china isn't ready to take on the role of the superpower and i also discuss how having no one superpower or no leading superpower can lead to global gridlock and there have been many books written about how if you don't have one power it leads to this g. zero which was coined by -- because the u.s. is unsure of what to do no one is doing anything. the saudi's are arming and the turks want to do this but no one is coming in and taking charge and that's what happens when the united states puts his foot down sometimes and says
i think the whole notion of power is changing. i'm not actually a big fan of the work declined because i don't think it reflects necessarily the reality. i am not a policymaker but from what i am finding is a journalist and as someone who has lived if you will on the receiving end of decisions made in washington, i'm not sure that the work declined is the right one but it is the one used in the debate. what i have found was that there was no one else who could take on the role that the moment...
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it's not enough to be, obviously, the candidate of change, the president of change. there is a certain reality on the ground. sometimes the personality of a president can help make things move along. but you have to remember that players on the ground have their own agendas, their own domestic, um, considerations, their own fears and concerns. about what they can give up on or not give up on. and then there was this moment where hillary clinton shows her loyalty to the president, and without revealing too much to the readers about the plot, um, there was this moment where she shows loyalty and emphasizes a statement that the president has made in a way that the players on the ground, the palestinians and the israelis, feel that they're now stuck in a surgeon position, and they have to -- in a certain position, and they have to unblock that. but the palestinians are sitting there thinking, well, you know, we're not going to be more british than the british or more royal than the king, we're just going to wait for the americans to deliver what they said they would deli
it's not enough to be, obviously, the candidate of change, the president of change. there is a certain reality on the ground. sometimes the personality of a president can help make things move along. but you have to remember that players on the ground have their own agendas, their own domestic, um, considerations, their own fears and concerns. about what they can give up on or not give up on. and then there was this moment where hillary clinton shows her loyalty to the president, and without...